Don’t you love it when someone does something out of spite and yet it ends up being the best thing for the spited parties? I’m not talking about engaging in some sort of sick schadenfreude here nor a perverse comeuppance. Rather, one party attempts to be vindictive, but while doing so unknowingly performs a kindness. That’s the foundation for today’s missive. To tell the tale, we must travel south to the border of the land of my birth—to the Mexican border of Texas.
Once upon a time there was a governor by the name of Greg Abbott. Mr. Abbott ruled a raucous land of roustabouts and roughnecks known as Texas. One night as Gov. Abbott strode his balcony with tented fingers seeking a stroke of genius with which to smite his foes, he struck inspiration as if it were oil! It was a fantabulous solution to BOTH foil his enemies AND cure his porous border woes.
Okay, enough of the poetic narrative. In case you haven’t heard, Abbott has been sending a message to Biden by bussing hapless migrants from the southern border to northern destinations like D.C. and Chicago. I think the intended message goes something like this:
“See what a mess your open border policies have created? Look at all these pathetic illegal immigrants. Well, we’re tired of cleaning up your mess, so they are your responsibility now. How does it feel, huh? How do you like me now!?” At this point, I envision Abbott dabbing or doing a little Fortnite touchdown dance. It ends with him licking his finger and touching it to his smoking hot posterior. (I love that move when it’s done by middle-aged, white politicians.)
That’s the spiteful bit. But what I don’t think Gov. Abbott took even five seconds to think through was the actual, on-the-ground results of his high profile stunt (you know, for all the humans involved). Let’s play this through now that we’ve had a couple weeks to track the story.
As far as the migrants are concerned, they’ve been given a major gift from the Governor of Texas, bless his pea-pickin’ soul. For FREE he is giving them passage away from the squalor of the border. They are placed on a bus to D.C. and given permission to get off the bus at any stop along the way if they choose. Some of these migrant individuals, couples, and families have contacts within the United States, and this bus trip has provided them the opportunity to get that much closer to individuals who care about their well being.
The rest of the migrants arrive in D.C. where they are met by volunteers who are glad to help them transition. Most are continuing on to other locations. Some are finding helping families in D.C. who are glad to give them room in board in exchange for help around the house.
While it obviously wasn’t his intent, Abbott has stumbled into the most passionate solution for these poor, beleaguered migrants (and a possible solution to our rat’s nest of an immigration policy). Before his intervention, these people were stuck in a dangerous loop of deportation, squalor, and illegal border crossings. Now they have a fresh hope of an eventual path forward. Granted, that path is still an extremely tenuous one, but Abbott’s stunt might help cement it. The United States is desperate for workers. These migrants are desperate for work. While I love the state of my birth, I have to admit that most of these migrants will be better off in places like D.C. and Chicago.
It’s almost like Abbott decided to lob grenades at “all those damn yankees” just to discover that the grenades were cream filled…and they weren’t grenades after all, but eclairs. Mmmmm, eclairs. You know what they say, when life throws you immigrants, open a pastry shop.
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